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AESTHETICS OF HATE: R.I.P. DIMEBAG ABBOTT, AND GOOD RIDDANCE -- Time For Conservative Imagination!
ICONOCLAST ^ | by William Grim

Posted on 12/14/2004 8:40:19 AM PST by Apolitical

Part of the hard work of civilization is teaching young to be able to distinguish between the good and the bad in all aspects of life. If we teach our young children to obey the 10 Commandments and to obey the laws of the land, but don't teach them to realize that Johann Sebastian Bach is superior to Dimebag Abbott, we have failed as parents and mentors. If a person has gone through 12 or 13 years of education and has not developed an appreciation for the greatest artistic achievements of mankind, that education has been an utter failure.

While laissez-faire is the correct approach to economics it has no place in the realm of aesthetics or morality. A confidant civilization imposes its morality and aesthetics on it young people. Yes, you heard it right. We impose. The Rousseauian noble savage is a myth. Left unchecked and untutored the savage will never attain nobility......

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: dimebagdarrell; headbanger; pantera; shooting
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To: chris1

You and me both.


41 posted on 12/14/2004 9:01:35 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks ('Hate' is just a special kind of Love we give to people who suck.)
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To: Fierce Allegiance; RockinRight

Me either - legit article for discussion, not a vanity.....even if not worth reading!


42 posted on 12/14/2004 9:01:38 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Apolitical

The headline sucks.

What kind of moron writes such a thing?

"Yay, some musician got shot in the face."


43 posted on 12/14/2004 9:01:42 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: Apolitical
This article deserves a ZOT!
44 posted on 12/14/2004 9:01:52 AM PST by KoRn
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To: RockinRight
Dimebag was certainly one of the best metal guitarists of modern times.

Think anyone will remember him 300 years from now?

45 posted on 12/14/2004 9:01:52 AM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: Apolitical
Dimebag was not a genius as was Bach, neither we was he a pillar of society. Dimebag was, however, a talented guitarist, and a American making a legal and honest living at what he loved. Anybody who has a problem with that should but the hell out.

I'd LOVE to see this author stake his case that Mozart was Dimbags moral superior. Mozart was a genius also, are we to assume talent and intellect give moral respectability to hedonism? That would be the height of elitism

And how dare he claim to know what is in ANY man's soul?

Otherwise, he exactly right. Both Christians and Conservatives have surrendered art (an education) to the hedonist, humanists, and other mavens of mediocrity.

The question should be: what could Mr. Abbot have achieved with a solid classical education and training? I'd call this Talent Lost, not Good Riddance.
46 posted on 12/14/2004 9:02:07 AM PST by Dead Dog
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Dimebag was a hugh W supporter, I hear.


47 posted on 12/14/2004 9:02:11 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: Apolitical

Wow...what venomous tripe! That was some seriously overworked crap. He basically says that Mr. Abbott was a sub-human being who deserved to die because he didn't play classical music? Good golly, this guy frightens me.


48 posted on 12/14/2004 9:02:17 AM PST by exnavychick (Just my two cents, as usual.)
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To: Ditto

That's not the point.


49 posted on 12/14/2004 9:02:36 AM PST by Dead Dog
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To: RockinRight

No kidding, they should have called the albums Load and Reloud...Unload...as in the toilet, WHAT CRAP!


50 posted on 12/14/2004 9:02:37 AM PST by MahaMarty (This'll probably get me suspended...AGAIN!)
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To: US admirer
My experience is that the one who quote the most scripture and who thump the bibles the hardest are the biggest hypocrites...

That has never been my experience. And I have never actually seen anyone "thump" a Bible.

51 posted on 12/14/2004 9:02:42 AM PST by Skooz (The "holiday" has a name.)
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To: RockinRight

AC DC - still the best.


52 posted on 12/14/2004 9:02:51 AM PST by US admirer
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To: Sir Gawain

Irony can be ironic, at times ;0)


53 posted on 12/14/2004 9:02:59 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks ('Hate' is just a special kind of Love we give to people who suck.)
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To: Ditto
Dimebag was certainly one of the best metal guitarists of modern times.

Think anyone will remember him 300 years from now?

Probably not. That doesn't mean he deserved to be murdered, as this article implies.

54 posted on 12/14/2004 9:03:51 AM PST by Skooz (The "holiday" has a name.)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Imagine living next door to Mozart?


55 posted on 12/14/2004 9:04:03 AM PST by Dead Dog
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To: All
You know, I wish no harm on anyone, however, how many "kids" were influenced by "Dimebags" cavalier way of life?

His avant disregsrd of what is culturally acceptable and LEGAL is evident just by his name. A name in reference soley to the appropriation of narcotics.

How different Americas' heroes have become, how sad that they have actually become acceptable idols for our children.

Every single "Pantera" album carries a parental warning, nice guys, lets have them in our living rooms.

So goodbye to dear sweet, generous "dimebag" and his explicit four letter sexually explicit lyrics, this "Inspiration" will be greatly missed.

56 posted on 12/14/2004 9:04:10 AM PST by kevin
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To: Ditto

Will anyone remember Dale Earnhardt 300 years from now? Mickey Mantle? Johnny Cash?

Probably not. It's still a tradgedy to lose guys like this.




57 posted on 12/14/2004 9:05:21 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: Apolitical
If a person has gone through 12 or 13 years of education and has not developed an appreciation for the greatest artistic achievements of mankind, that education has been an utter failure.

What a wonderful pearl of wisdom from a conservative elitist. I find it just as distasteful as liberal elitism.

58 posted on 12/14/2004 9:05:30 AM PST by green iguana
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To: randog
I call them "White Glove Conservatives". They think meeting the enemy head-on in the streets is beneath them. Lot's of them popping up these days.

Yup.

59 posted on 12/14/2004 9:05:36 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks ('Hate' is just a special kind of Love we give to people who suck.)
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To: Skooz

You're from the south an you never seen a preacher beating the pulpit with one as if it were an attacking hyena?


60 posted on 12/14/2004 9:06:06 AM PST by US admirer
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